Balancing is $17.50 for all 4 or per tire. If it's per tire it's a scam. Next they'll sell you 1/2 a tire but you must buy the other 1/2 at the inflated price... anything to make a large number in their ads look small.

I had purchased 4 SE tires for my min-van before. They wear out really fast. It was interesting that one week after I bought the tires, I went back to CT for an oil change. When I picked up the van, they said they also changed 2 of the tires, no charge. They said 2 of the tires were defective, something about the steel belt.

Well, under normal driving conditions, they wore out at around 50,000km. I don't know where they get the 110k km rating is ridiculous.

I bought a set of these tires few years back, using it only for non winter driving.
There were fine during first year or so, but go out of balance quickly as they didn't wear out as evenly as the other premier tires. I saved money on the tires, and but spend on balancing them. $8 per wheel.

On on occasion, I suspected the belt in the tire was shifting and would like to investigate the possibility of warranty claim, learned the hard way that it was cheaper to get them replaced.

In my case, I would stick to Costco for tires. Free balancing for the life time of the tires is unheard of (not that I need them often)

used to use nothing but CT tires as they are decent and price is still good but the extras for mounting, balancing, valve, disposal of old tires etc added a third onto the price(used to be free mounting etc. a decade ago) so went to a local tire store and got a much better inclusive deal with name brand tires

Always ask CT what the total cost will be as they're getting like ontario hydro or bell telephone with a complicated formula.